Sackville: Firsthand account of Capture at Sea of Canadian Boat to Gaza.

Date:

Thursday, 16 February, 2012 - 13:00 - 14:00

Location:

Bennett G 03 Lecture Hall, Mount Allison University

City:

Sackville, NB

Please join us to hear

David Heap give his account of the Freedom Waves to Gaza which took place in November, when Irish and Canadian boats tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

A linguistics professor at the University of Western Ontario, Heap was on board the Canadian Boat, the Tahrir, when it was seized by the Israeli navy in international waters. Freedom Waves is part of an ongoing global solidarity movement challenging the blockade of Gaza and working for freedom for Palestine.